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14v dewalt setup help

Loving my summit but looking for a bit more ground speed. Birthday coming up so the misses is going to get me a 14v dewalt motor and I was wondering what gearing I should use? I've read some people use 16/54 in a summit and someone else running 24/54 in a revo. Also considering getting a 3s to match my 2s for 5s bashing. What setups would people recommend? looking to keep temps down with good runtimes and keeping breakages/stress to a minimum. Around 30mph would be perfect.

Ahh I have the latest LVD version shame as I found a matching 3s. Cheers for the link 16/65 I see, well that's another one to add to my list. Anyone else got any suggestions? I GPS'd my stock summit on lipos today and got 17.5mph so it seems 30 will be a tall order.

I'm running the 14v Dewalt. With 18p/68s I GPS (iPhone app) right at 25mph. Stock was 19.8mph with the 14p/68s (stock). Product variances being what they are, I'm sure you'll get right at 25-26 with proper gearing on your Dewalt.

after much pondering and wallet checking I won't be going brushless as per my other thread, instead i'm going to get a new castle MMM waterproof esc to pair up with my dewalt, any suggestions on gearing for 5s?

Only question I have is WHY? Your going to end up overheating the dewalt motor on 5S. I hate to say it but you can get a cheaper EZrun or XErun brushless setup, gear it SUPER low, throw in a PILE of punch control and have a better setup than an MMM/Dewalt on 5S.

The MMM is a $150-200 ESC. The dewalt motor is $30-50 depending on how ready to install you want it. For just over $200 you can get an EZrun system with a 150amp ESC and 2000kv sensored motor. Not waterproof, but geared right it would give you excellent results on 4S in a summit.

Just curious, how many packs have you run through your Summit since going to the Dewalt? My Summit's performance improved noticably after 3 or 4 runs. Granted it's not brushless, but for my style, 25 mph is great.

I have the new evx2 with the LVD and I put it into nickel mode with a LVA and ran it on 5c and hit 29.4 mph on my bumpy hilly drive way. I'm running 18/65 14.4 dewalt. I only ran it for maybe 5 min. I was a bit intimated. It was amazing fast.

Just curious, how many packs have you run through your Summit since going to the Dewalt? My Summit's performance improved noticably after 3 or 4 runs. Granted it's not brushless, but for my style, 25 mph is great.

Only 1 full pack so far since running it in.

Originally Posted by Keila72

I have the new evx2 with the LVD and I put it into nickel mode with a LVA and ran it on 5c and hit 29.4 mph on my bumpy hilly drive way. I'm running 18/65 14.4 dewalt. I only ran it for maybe 5 min. I was a bit intimated. It was amazing fast.

30 mph is my aim so will look into that, what were you temps like? so you changed the stock spur for a smaller one as well?

30 mph is my aim so will look into that, what were you temps like? so you changed the stock spur for a smaller one as well?

I didn't check temps. I only had the 5 cell in it for two runs. Down and back down and back.
And yeah i changed the spur to a 65. As soon as I get a good time I'm going to test it on pavement and check the temps. I'm thinking of going back to 16/68. Just for crawling and it all around easier on the rig.